Books on Professional Portfolios or Higher Education

A book designed for graphic arts professionals. This book includes
a CD-ROM and provides some interesting examples of web-based and CD-ROM-based
portfolios using a variety of construction tools, including HTML, Director
and Acrobat.

Following up on their previous book, the authors have created
a guide for teacher educators on how to implement a portfolio and performance
assessment system in a preservice teacher education program. Chapter
titles include: Gaining and Communicating a Vision; Guidelines for Portfolio
Development; Ensuring Quality in Student Learning Through Performance Assessments
and Rubrics; Supporting Students as They Document Their Learning; Assessing
Program Quality; Learning as We Go: Continuing the Work of Program Self-Evaluation.
Also included in the Appendices are: Artifacts Checklist, Artifacts Possibilities;
Rubrics to Use in a Portfolio Checkpoint System; Self-Assessment Sorting
Exercise for Determining Values in Teaching; Transcript of a Sample Junior
Checkpoint Conference.

Dietz, Mary E.(2001) Designing the School Leader's Portfolio. Arlington
Heights: Skylight Professional Development

"This book is intended for teachers, supervisors, and administrators.
It focuses on how to foster teachers' professional growth and use the portfolio
to document that growth. The two processes are closely intertwined: growth
without documentation remains too private; documentation without growth
is too trivial." (p.vii)

Hartnell-Young, Elizabeth and Morriss, Maureen (1999). Digital Professional
Portfolios for Change. Arlington Heights: Skylight Professional Development

The first book that addresses a model of putting multimedia
professional portfolios on the World Wide Web. Covers strategies developed
by Women @ the Cutting Edge in Australia.

Lyons, Nona (ed.) (1998). With Portfolio in Hand: validating the new
teacher professionalism. New York: Teachers College Press.

A very comprehensive guide to teaching portfolios, with articles
by Lee Shulman, Dennie Wolf, Larry Cuban, and many others.

This little book can be shrink-wrapped for free with a variety
of Merrill textbooks in Teacher Education. It answers a variety of questions
students have in developing portfolios and includes planning guides for
creating professional portfolios for several different audiences.

A great compendium of articles focusing on theory and power (primarity in
writing portfolios), pedagogy, teaching and professional development, and
technology. This book is "both reflective and forward-looking, practice-oriented
but well-grounded in theory,"

This book focuses on college level portfolios and specifically
writing portfolios. It does have a few examples from middle school and
high school especially as it relates to using portfolios in classrooms.

Contains concise information designed to help teachers understand how portfolios
can aid their efforts in student assessment. Includes a chapter on the use
of technology for portfolio development.

Danielson, Charlotte; Abrutyn, Leslye (1997) An Introduction to Using Portfolios
in the Classroom. Alexandria: Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development.

Another "must-have" for K-12 teachers looking for a short summary
of the portfolio development process. Published by ASCD, it covers types
of portfolios, the portfolio development process, the benefits of portfolios,
and portfolio management.

The last chapter, by W. Ross Brewer and Bena Kallick, "Technology's
Promise for Reporting Student Learning," presents a vision of how online
digital portfolios can enhance communication as well as provide more information
to parents and the public, who are increasingly interested in student achievement.

Hebert, Elizabeth A. (2001) The Power of Portfolios: What children can
teach us about learning and assessment. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

One of the best books on elementary student portfolios. This book models
the portfolio process itself. An excellent book on how this principal's school
developed the portfolio process over more than a decade, with remarkable success.
"...a practical and imaginative approach for using portfolios with elementary
level students and shows how the portfolio process can serve as a powerful
motivational tool by encouraging students to assess their own work, set goals,
and take responsibility for future learning."

Written by two high school language arts teachers, this book
is filled with many examples from their classrooms. They focus on the use
of the portfolio to enhance student learning, with a major emphasis on
reflection. An excellent resource on how reflection can be used to support
the learning process. A very practical guide for secondary teachers.

A very readable book on authentic assessment, focusing on grades
K-6; portfolio assessment as a decision-making process; design, implementation,
and management; using portfolio results in planning instruction; shifting
assessment paradigms. Every so often, key points and important ideas are
summarized in "at a glance" sections.

This interesting book applies Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences
to the portfolio development process and points out the role of portfolios
in a comprehensive assessment system. Includes a companion dual-platform CD-ROM
geaturing sample student portfolios and reproducible assessment forms.

Sunstein, Bonnie S.; Lovell, Jonathan H. (eds.) (2000) The Portfolio Standard:
How Students Can Show Us What They Know and Are Able to Do. Portsmouth,
NH: Heinemann